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Methods & Modeling Job Candidates, 2009-2010

Kenichi Ariga (Ph.D. expected summer 2010)
Dissertation Title: Entrenched Incumbents, Irresponsible Parties? Incumbency Advantage, Collective Responsibility, and Economic Voting.
Dissertation Committee: Robert Franzese (Chair), Allen Hicken, John Jackson, Walter Mebane
Research Interests: Comparative Democratic Politics (Elections, Parties, Legislatures, and Public Policy), Political Economy, Politics of Advanced Industrial Democracies, Quantitative Political Methodology
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Thomas Chadefaux (Ph.D. expected April 2009)
Dissertation Title: The Value of Power: When Do States Fight Over Their Relative Strength?
Dissertation Committee: James Morrow (Co-chair), Robert Axelrod (Co-Chair), Allan Stam, Barbara Koremenos, Tilman Börgers (UM Economics)
Research Interests: International Security, Interstate wars, game theory, agent-based models
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G. Jiyun Kim (Ph.D. 2006)
Dissertation Title: The Nature and the Timing of Political Stabilization
Dissertation Committee: James Morrow (Chair), Robert Axelrod, Robert Franzese, Scott Page, Daniel Silverman (Economics)
Research Interests: Political Transitions, Conflict Resolution, State Failure, Political Violence, Modeling and Simulation, Large N Quant, and Knowledge / Socio-cognitive Engineering.
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Adam Seth Levine (Ph.D. expected April 2010)
Dissertation Title: Strategic Solicitations: Examining when Requests for Political Donations are Persuasive
Dissertation Committee: Arthur Lupia (Chair), Ted Brader, Nancy Burns, Scott Page, Mary Rigdon (U-M Research Center on Group Dynamics)
Research Interests: Political Behavior, Formal Modeling, Political Psychology, Public Policy, Political Communication, Public Opinion, Research Design and Survey Measurement, Experimental Design, State and Local Politics
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Yoshikuni Ono (Ph.D. expected May 2010)
Dissertation Title: Portfolio Allocation as Leadership Strategy: Bargaining among and within Parties
Dissertation Committee: Arthur Lupia (Chair), William R. Clark, Anna Grzymala-Busse, Orit Kedar (MIT), Daisuke Nakajima (Economics)
Research Interests: Japanese politics, parliamentary democracy, coalition formation, political parties, intra-party politics, delegation of power, formal modeling
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Paul Poast (Ph.D. expected April 2010)
Dissertation Title: Linking Issues and Sealing Deals: Understanding International Cooperation Using Military Alliances with Economic Cooperation Provisions
Dissertation Committee: James Morrow (Co-chair), William Roberts Clark (Co-chair), Barbara Koremenos, Walter Mebane, Allan Deardorff (U-M Economics)
Research Interests: Topics at Intersection of International Security and International Political Economy; Statistical Methodology in International Relations
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Johannes Urpelainen (Ph.D. expected April 2009)
Dissertation Title: All or Nothing: The Problem of Inefficient Compromise in International Cooperation
Dissertation Committee: Barbara Koremenos (co-chair), James Morrow (co-chair), William Clark, Jana von Stein, Arthur Lupia, Tilman Borgers (UM Economics)
Research Interests: International cooperation and institutions, international political economy, international environmental policy, game theory
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